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Auction: 21144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 397

Great Britain: "Pilsen" "Joel" & General Electric Light Co. Ltd., £5 shares, 188[2], #1037, signed by Sir Rawson W. Rawson, black. Formed to operate the Pilsen and Joel lighting systems in the UK. One of the earliest of the electric light companies, in liquidation by 1889. Sir Rawson W. Rawson, KCMG, CB, 1812-1899, Government official and statistician, Colonial Secretary to the Cape, Governor of the Bahamas, later Governor of the Windward Islands. President of the Royal Statistical Society. VF and rare.

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